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UNITE STATES PATENT Erica.

SETH s. GETCHELL, or WOONSOOKET, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE DRAPER& soNs.

OIL-CAN.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,469, dated May27, 1884.

Application filed March 14, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SETH S. GETOHELL, ofWVoonsocket, county of Providence, State of Rhode Island, have inventedan Improvement in Oil-Cans, of which the following description, inconnection with the accompanying drawings,-is a specification, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention is an improvement upon that class of oil-cans containingan air-eduction and air-induction pipes suspended within the can from acollar. In this class of can I have provided the aireduction pipe with abottomclosing device, (shown as a removable cap or plug,) to enableaccess to be had to the interior of and cleanse the said pipe whennecessary.

Figure l is a central vertical section of an oil-can containingmyinvention, the spout being partially broken off. Fig. 2 is a top viewof the can, the spout being omitted; and Fig.

- 3 is a section of Fig. l on the dotted line as x.

The body A of the can, which may be of any usual or suitableconstruction, is provided at its upper end with a screw-threaded ring,a, to receive the exterior]y-screw-threaded collar or neck B, the latterbeing provided with a throat or opening, I), to permit the can to besupplied withoil, the said throat having preferably a screw-thread toenable a spout, 8, (partially shown,) to be connected therewith. Thecollar, perforated at 12 has an airinduction pipe or tube, a, secured toits under side, the said inductive pipe opening into oncommunicatingwith an aireduction tube or pipe, 0, the open upper end of which islocated under the lower end of the said collar, at one side of itscentral opening, 22, or out of line therewith, so that oil being pouredinto the can cannot enter the mouth of the said tube or pipe to clog thesame and prevent the free flow of 40 air therefrom into the body of thecan whenever oil is being poured therefrom. The airchamber, composed ofthe pipes c 0', being connected with the removable collar or neck B,must be of a size to permit it to pass through the ring a, in order thatsaid air-chamber may be withdrawn from can after unscrewing the neckfrom said collar, and when so withdrawn the cap or cover 01 at the lowerend of the tube 0 may be readily removed from the bottom of the chamberto permit the interior of said chamber to be cleansed, should it havebecome clogged in any manner.

Instead of the cap, I may stop the lower end of the tube 0 by a plug, asshown in dotted lines, Fig. 1.

I claim The body A, its attached threaded ring, and the threaded collarsecured therein, and provided with the openings 12 b combined with aninduction and eduction pipes, constituting an air-chamber in connectionwith and made removable from the body A, with the said collar or neck,the air-chamber having a removable bottom-closing device, to operate substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two sublVitnesses:

IRA WV. ARNOLD, JOHN MILLER.

